Means for securing railroad-rails to ties of railroad-beds.



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0. J. MORRIS. MEANS FOR SECURING RAILROAD RAILS T0 TIES 0F RAILROAD BEDS. APPLIOAZION FILED :MAIE. 4, 1907.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed March 4,1907. 'Serial No. 360,517.-

IPatented Oct. 6, 1908,

To all tvhom it concern:

. Be it known that I, OSCAR J Monnrs, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Laraniiap n the county-of Albany and State of Wy j g, have invented certain new and useftg'l Im rovements in-'Means for Securing Railroadails to .Ties of Railroad-Beds; and

I dogjtieclare the following to be a full, clear, andbkact description of the invention, such as enable others skilled in the art to.

. arran ement of parts, as will be hereinafter 'descri claim. p a In the accompanying drawings, forming a 2 part of this specification, and inwhich like characters of reference indicate correspond- 1 connection with the openings tof the tie plate -T resides in the form of spike that is used for ing parts,-Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a portion of a railroad rail and tie plate, ex-

; f'hibiting the manner in which the spike copacts therewith. Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation displaying the contour of the spike.

Referring to the drawings, R designates the rail and T the tie late, which is provided with elongated spi e o enings t. These parts may be of the usua or any preferred construction, and therefore need no detail description.

The feature of the present invention in holding the rail and tie assembled with the sleeper. This spike comprises a shank 1 and an elongated head 2- rovided with a rail-engaging; nose 3. Ad acent to the nose, the neckof the spike is provided with a notch 5, the upper face of the lower wall 6 of which is flat and inclined inwardly and downwardly to the rail form a lip or edge 7 that is designedfifwhen the., spikeis in position, to bite into the tieplait'e, (when such is used, or into thebase of and thus effect a stable union be tween (the parts. 1 r

' As i-iown in Fig. 2, the back edge 8 of the spike'ig straight from the neck to the point 9,

while the front edge is beveled at 10 to germ a chisel-Qnteringpoint. .1;

ed and particularly pointed .out in the I B arranging the upper wall of the notch in t e manner described, namely in a slanting or oblique plane relatively to the long diameter of the spike, frictional contact between it and the" part with} which it is contacted is rendered of the strongest character. The lower end of the shank of the spike is insorted in 'the elongated openingt of the tie plate Tand the spike is driven into the sleeper of the road bed until the notch 5, is in line with theedges of the tie plate and flanges of the rail. The rear portion of the head of the spike is then driven inward towards the rail to permit of the notch to engage the underface of the plate while the nose of the head of the spikewill engagethe upper surface of the flange of the rail thereby permitting of the lip 7 of the inclined wall 6 to contact with the underiace of the tie plate T. This wall 6 is intended to reach or extend well under the --rail and tie plate, and the weightfrom these parts and horn the rolling stock will be transmitted directly to the lip 7, thereby transmitting the pressure straight toward the point or tip of the spike, and this will have a tendency to force the head of the spike in against the rail and its point outward thereupon. The shank of the spike, as shown in Fig.- 1, is as awhole tapered, this being necessary in order to cause the spike always to leariforward so that it will hold the lip in position, and at the same time brace the rail and prevent the trackfrom spreading.

It will be seen from the foregoing description that although the improvements herein defined are simple in character, that they will be found thoroughly efficient for pose designed.

I claim as my invention A spike in combination witha tie plate and ,a railroad rail, the tie plate being provided with an elongated opening therein, said rail having its flange section mounted on said tie plate and the length of the opening of the tie plate being greater than the width of the spike, said spike. having an approximately rectangular notch formed therein next to the head of the spike, one wall of the notch being downwardly inclined forming a lip .on its outward forward edge, andsaid notch engaging the underface of the tie plate and," the upper the puriace of the flange of therail, the inner edge of l In testimony whereof I have hereunto set the opening and the outer edge of the flange my hand in presence of two subscribing witof the rail contacting with the vertical wall of nesses.

the notch, and said lip on said inclined wall OSCAR J. MORRIS. 5 of the notch contacting with the underface of VVitnessesr the tie plate to prevent lateral movement of E. A. WILKINSON,

said plate, substantially as specified. H. N. RoAon. 

